A staple crop in more than 100 countries, rice production is critical to global food security. Flooded rice paddies emit about 20–30 million tons of methane per year, or 10% of agriculture’s total global GHG emissions. Methane emissions can be reduced by 30-50% through the alternate wetting and drying (AWD) farming that reduces flooding.

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